CVE-2020-25412 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnuplot  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GNUPLOT-1137174
  • published14 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 Sept 2020

Introduced: 16 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25412  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnuplot package and not the gnuplot package as distributed by Ubuntu.

com_line() in command.c in gnuplot 5.4 leads to an out-of-bounds-write from strncpy() that may lead to arbitrary code execution.